Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bute Docks Company employees, photograph

Collings, M.R. (Photographer)

Large group of Bute Docks Company employees, many of whome are wearing boaters with hat bands bearing the company name and jumpers with the company name knitted into them. Mounted on backing board with handwritten inscription along two edges of photograph identifying the men in the photograph.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

85.15I/20

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Bute Docks Co.
Association Type: Company name
Date: 1890 (circa)
Place: Bute Docks

Creation/Production

Photographer Joseph Collings is last seen in newspaper adverts and trade directories in 1875 and thereafter the business was continued by his widow and son, operating under his wife's name Margaret Robinson "M.R.Collings".
Role: Photographer
Period: 1890

Acquisition

donation, 8/3/1985

Measurements

mount (mm): 348
mount (mm): 444

Techniques

Sepia (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Card
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